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Asked 25 January 2021
What are super-AIs doing to postpone succumbing to heat death? And could we detect that?
Societies seem likely to evolve into or result in (reproducing) super-AIs, since super-AIs are likely feasible, and evolutionary fitter. (I'll attach some draft arguing the claims made here and below a bit more. Or you can accept the premises for the sake of argument.)
To imagine what super-AIs are like, you can think of them as being like you, except much more evolved: More cooperative and considerate; lighter if that helps (weighing less than say 1g); ...
More to the point, super-AIs might also be likely, for evolutionary reasons, to try to postpone their death. What would that entail? What would super-AIs succumb to? Given that they are super, cosmological heat death seems likely? How can they postpone that? And would we be able to detect what super-AIs might be doing to postpone their death?
For example, would super-AIs want to keep entropy down? And therefore, say, try to keep black holes small, or hinder star formation? Would that be feasible to a meaningful extent?
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Maybe we don't know enough about physics and other areas to even speculate in a useful way about what super-AIs might be doing. For example the speculations about black holes and stars above, even if hypothetical examples, seem premature.
One thing we perhaps can say though is that, all other things being equal, it would be better to have bigger and fewer, rather than smaller and more, galaxy clusters when the expansion of the universe starts to be felt in earnest in the far future, and anything outside a galaxy cluster will be beyond the event horizon.
However, it's very unclear what this possible preference for larger clusters would mean in practice. Super-AIs ought to not steal matter (because of e.g. seemingly universal prior ownership adaptations; see refs); they ought to not engage in zero or negative sum games; they ought to not conquer or appropriate other areas. Maybe small clusters are on the whole just fine.
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